Word: momentous
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...assembled sequences would mean. Rajesh Rao, an associate professor of computer science at the University of Washington and a co-author of the study, says the task ahead of them is "like a jigsaw puzzle, one where you try to fit meanings into patterns and sequences." At the moment, he and his team are wary of ascribing meaning to the signs - an act of conjecture, he says, that has led other Indus Valley experts in the past...
...labeled investment grade by ratings agencies. It was, in fact, junk. But Goldman realized earlier than most that rot was setting in and famously decided to pull back from the mortgage market. The firm then shorted various mortgage-securities indexes - betting that prices would fall - at the very moment that other firms were still making big long bets on the securities. Goldman avoided losses while other firms infected themselves with the cancerous securities...
Figuring out how to balance the proper ongoing motivation of some of the nation's best and brightest people with the still simmering public anger toward Wall Street - and, at the moment, toward Goldman Sachs in particular - may be Blankfein's biggest management challenge yet. And he knows it. "Everybody's goal in life is to get 105% credit for all the good things they do and much less recognition for all the bad things they do," he says. "But with us, bizarrely, the view seems to be, What's good is bad and what's bad is good. There...
...younger scholars interested in studying American art with the same kind of investigative intensity and contextualization as those experts in better-entrenched areas of art history. “Harvard was very late to the study of American art, and I think it’s an exciting moment for the field to have Harvard go from having zero tenured faculty in the field to having two,” said History of Art and Architecture Professor Robin Kelsey, a fellow American art expert who received tenure this past January. “My own enjoyment of getting tenure would...
...push further away from the politics of distraction, a universal health-insurance bill is likely around the bend. It will no longer be as expansive or cheap as some wanted, but it will help millions of folks. Above all, we should not forget the historical moment. We’re at a turning point, and if we end the saloon-style sideshows we can make sure a new era for the American people—and a new era for trust in government as a force for good—arrives with a bang and not a whimper...